Parliament ends reading seven laws and directs a formal letter to the Prime Minister in this regard {expanded}
6/15/2019
(Baghdad: Al Furat News) The House of Representatives in its 24th session held under the chairmanship of Mohammed Al Halbusi, President of the Council, on Saturday, in the presence of 186 deputies, read seven draft laws and discussed a report on the treatment of housing crisis.
According to the statement of the Information Serviceof the Council, received {Euphrates News} a copy of it, that "at the outset of the meeting, followed by the Committee to monitor the implementation of the government program and strategic planning report on the treatment of the housing crisis, which referred to the convening of intensive meetings and extensive discussions and address a number of relevant ministries and bodies regarding to provide the Commission with data and information on the crisis of housing and identification of slums and preparation areas and presence. " the
Commission explained in its report that the population growth rate of 2.8% per annum and the rate of 120_150 thousand housing units per year, noting the need for Iraq to 2.5 million housing units for the end 2016 Net The population growth is below the other exceptional circumstances, pointing to the increase in slums and the increase in informal settlements which reached (3687) population and the number of random housing (521947) housing and 16.5% of the total number of housing in Iraq, these slums {3292606} people until the year 2017, while the province of Baghdad , was ranked first in terms of random gatherings , which amounted to {1022} collected and 27.7%. the
Committee made in its conclusions , including the achievement of national policy adopted in 2010 was only {5%} with the absence of coordination between state institutions and sectors concerned and problem Lands facing the housing sector and the lack of units database land guide in addition to the lack of land needed for housing in urban areas and the presence of the excesses of the territory under the authority of ownership disputes have not been resolved. The
Commission presented in its report recommendations , notably the need to find a point of sectoral executive Alia manages the solution of the housing problem and has the authority to transfer the ownership of the land owned by any of the state institutions for the purposes of residential complexes and give priority to the package of legislation on resolving the crisis and speed up the completion of population census and surveys and completion of databases and guide Lands, as well as monitoring the financial allocations required to complete the infrastructure of the areas to be invested and to find permanent sources of financing and the issuance of the necessary developers legislation, and the allocation of $ {500 billion} dinars for the housing fund within the 2020 budget
also included the recommendations of the importance of the Council of Ministers to review the decision No. 70 of 2019 and discuss ways to implement it and the need for the government to adopt the method of equipping citizens with construction materials at subsidized prices and obliging the government to activate the laws of the institutions of martyrs, prisoners and victims of terrorist operations by distributing plots of land or residential units, The formation of the quality of the courts to recover the loan deal with custody and re - acquisition and resale of collateral issues or rely on government debt collection law and the explicit reference to him in the terms of the contract. In
turn the President of the House of Representatives to follow up the implementation of the government program and the holding of joint meetings between the Committee on the various committees terms of reference.
focused interventions Representatives on the importance of encouraging the government for housing vertical and not overtaking on the green belt of cities and the development of a new mechanism for the inclusion of all citizens to obtain residential land and support for building materials and encourage investment in this field as well as the importance of a time limit setting for the application recommends The Committee.
The interventions during the session, which was presided over by Vice President Bashir Haddad, focused on the importance of dealing with slums and providing decent housing for every citizen. The Ministry of Municipalities should also contract with foreign companies to build apartments in cooperation with the private sector. Or amend the law of property law, and the proposal to move towards the Housing Fund for the ease of implementation of legal procedures by citizens in addition to obligating oil licensing companies to contribute to the establishment of complexes.
The representative of the government in the House of Representatives Turhan Mufti that the solution of housing issue is a core issue within the framework of the government, calling on the House of Representatives to accelerate the vote on the draft law to address abuses transmitted by the government, noting that the government is working on the establishment of the city of Sayab in Basra province by providing Thousands of residential plots serviced in the experiment will be circulated to other provinces.
For his part, Bashir Haddad stressed the need to follow up the issue of housing crisis by the parliamentary committees concerned until finding solutions to the rights of citizens to live decent, noting the presentation of the draft slums on the agenda of future meetings, calling on the government to activate the program of national housing policy.
In its response to the interventions, the committee stressed the importance of taking advantage of international expertise in resolving the crisis.
In another matter, Halabousi pointed out that the House of Representatives waiting for the government to send the names of candidates to fill the remaining positions in the government cab before the end of the legislative term.
The Council concluded the first reading of the draft law on the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, Helsinki 1992, submitted by the External Relations Committees, Agriculture, Water, Marshlands, Health and Environment, which aims to strengthen international cooperation to prevent, reduce and control the pollution of transboundary waters.
The Council completed the first reading of the bill of accession of the Republic of Iraq to the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ballast Water and Sediments in Ships of 200, submitted by the Committees of Foreign Relations, Health and Environment to enhance cooperation in the field of control and management of water ballast and sediments in ships and prevent the transfer of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens.
Council 's first reading and completed the project accession of the Republic of Iraq to the International Convention on Rescue Act of 1989 and submitted by the committees of foreign affairs , health and environmental relations in order to promote maritime industries and environmental protection in Iraq.
Completed the Council the first reading of the first draft amendment to the Law of the Ministry of Education No. {22} Law For the year 2011 and submitted by the committees of education and finance for the purpose of supporting the approved educational institutions and exemption from customs duties to secure their needs of educational supplies.
The session ended with the first reading of a bill to draw the character of the national campaign to build schools and kindergartens provided by the Education Committee, which aims to provide the necessary funds for the construction of schools and kindergartens.
The Council also completed the first reading of the draft law on the first amendment of the law of agricultural quarantine No. (76) for 2012 submitted by the committees of agriculture, water, marshes, health and environment for the purpose of exempting small quantities of agricultural missionaries and seed samples of quality and high production of import license and the inclusion of staff supporting the examination fees.
The Council completed the first reading of the draft law of the Industrialization and Defense Commission, submitted by the Security and Defense Committee, which aims at achieving national security and benefiting from national expertise and securing the military action of the national security ministries.
On the other hand, the Council discussed the wording of a resolution to terminate the work of the Council of Commissioners of the Information and Communication Authority, submitted by the Committee on Culture, Information, Tourism and Antiquities.
The Committee stated in its report that the Information and Communications Authority is still administered in accordance with the law of the Coalition Provisional Authority with the passage of time on the appointment of members of the plenipotentiaries of the Board of Trustees in the Information and Communications Authority, pointing to the need to end their work in accordance with the powers of the House of Representatives in his keenness to close the file management of the joints of the state proxy.
The deputies' interventions included urging the abolition of the agency's work for all independent and governmental bodies, legislating the laws related to the communications and informatics sectors, opening the candidature for new members in accordance with competence and competence, ensuring fair representation of the components in independent bodies, and calling for a high level of transparency in the work of the Commission Communications for what it receives from imports and annual profits and to confirm the termination of the work of the members of the Board of Trustees and even dismiss them for the existence of legal irregularities by them.
Halabousi issued an official letter addressed to the Prime Minister containing the removal of the legal violations of the members of the Board of Trustees of the Iraqi Media Network and the Media and Communications Commission, and that the violator should bear the legal consequences. He called on the concerned committee to unify the parliamentary decision on the Iraqi media network and the media and communications authority.
He also instructed the President of the Council to open representative offices of the Information and Communication Authority and the Integrity Commission and the Bureau of Financial Supervision and the Central Bank of Iraq in the House of Representatives.
President Halabousi announced the inclusion of the vote on the completion of the file of vacant ministries and the termination of the Agency and special grades within the first and second paragraphs of the agenda of the meetings until the end of the current legislative term.
Then it was decided to adjourn the meeting until Saturday, 22/6/2019
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